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Have you ever had a concussion?

doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I've had a few concussions, have you ever had one?

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  • 2dueces2dueces Posts: 6,434 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Two that I remember

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  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 18, 2021 6:03AM

    Two. The first was a football experience. Going up for a pass I ended up getting hit low then flipping over and landing on my head. Woke up in the hospital with no memory of it. The second was worse. I was threading a pipe and the handle of the pipe threader hit me in the head. The bad part was that I had the oldest Hydrant boy with me and we were alone. He was a newborn at the time and strapped into one of those little baby carriers. We live in a very rural area and as I went down my last thoughts were that the coyotes would get him. It was terrible. The Lovely Mrs. Hydrant found me and saved us both. I was out cold.

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,547 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 18, 2021 6:49AM

    Yep

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,547 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Back in the day it was “Drink some water” or “Shake the cobwebs off”

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @perkdog said:
    Back in the day it was “Drink some water” or “Shake the cobwebs off”

    Same here, back then I didn't even realize what a concussion was, it was just "walk it off".

  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm under the impression that half of the forum is currently concussed

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    hi, im tom!

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,948 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I probably got a minor one when I was a little kid. I remember falling off a hammock and hitting my head on a concrete floor. I saw spots and had a headache, but still ran around like a little fool with my cousins.

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  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 18, 2021 3:16PM

    7 and counting. Gonna be one of the CTE stats and am fine with that- donating my brain for it.

  • rexvosrexvos Posts: 3,304 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DrBuster said:
    7 and counting. Gonna be one of the CTE stats and am fine with that- donating my brain for it.

    first one I know of in 2nd grade, then 3rd then 4th. Then multiple playing football through college. I got my last one a few years ago when I took a golf club to the head when a kid was in my stall at Top Golf. I am 6'6 and he did not see me. I get headaches a lot and dizzy some, but that really did not start until this year and I turned 48 in April. Besides that I think I have all my faculties, Lets hope I beat the odds.

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  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,060 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I only know of one for sure though it wasn't officially diagnosed. Or, if it was, I was not told.

    When I was 14, I was walking to school and walked in front of a car. Car hit me, I rolled up on the hood, headbutted the windshield, was knocked out. The car stopped, I rolled off and I was awake and up on my feet pretty quickly (I think). When I came to, there must've been 10 people around me, all of them asking me my name. I got mad that they were making me repeat myself, LOL. I went to the hospital where they checked me out and sent me home pretty quickly.

  • AFLfanAFLfan Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't remember.

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  • erikthredderikthredd Posts: 8,960 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I’ve had five that a doctor diagnosed soon after and I can remember two other instances where I didn’t seek medical help but still had concussion like symptoms. The odd thing was none of these were football related.

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  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 8,618 ✭✭✭✭✭

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  • DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The one thing with mine...I have to make a full effort to remember them all every time I try to count. 4 of them I was out and I don't know how long to this day. One took me a year to get close to figuring out even the basics of what happened, and I still am not 100% on that one.

  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 8,618 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The main one I can recall is when I was 12. Was riding my bike across the highway and did not see any cars coming so I started to cross. Next thing I knew was hearing screeching tires from the brakes and my head breaking the windshield. Every thing was in slow motion and no pain whatsoever as I saw a clump of my hair float across my face and I landed on my back on the side of the road. Next thing I remember was being in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. Just more stitches in the head, a dislocated hip, and now at 60 I have a horrible memory and a hip full of arthritis.

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  • bobbybakerivbobbybakeriv Posts: 2,186 ✭✭✭✭

    I've had one after each of my last three subs...LOL

  • LandrysFedoraLandrysFedora Posts: 2,074 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Never had one but my sports active childhood resulted in 2 broken collar bones, a broken elbow, and alot of hurt pride.

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have had one. no fun at all.

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